it could even be that the Marines picked up members who wanted to associated with the Marines - i.e. even as screwed up as things are by 2000 the US Marine Corps is still the Corps, with its traditions and mythology - you could see people who want to hang onto something want to be part of that - so various remnants of other units join up with the Marines wanting to be part of the whole tradition - in other words the Marines in Poland almost becoming like the French Foreign Legion as to not caring where you come from as long as you are loyal to the Legion
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